They spoke to each other in whispers, half in Amharic, half in English, as if any one word uttered too loudly could reveal to both of them that, in fact, they had never understood each other; they had never really known who the other person was at all".
And its partially obscured underbelly, laid out in detail by former Reagan treasury official Bruce Bartlett, was that reducing taxes on the wealthy would have a salutary goal - if one that shouldn't be uttered too loudly in public -- to starve the beast.
When Kate Blackwell QC, Brewer's barrister, alleged her account of being raped by the Brewers at their house was "utter fantasy", Andrade loudly replied: "Bollocks".
A teacher stated: I neither uttered any sensitive word loudly nor did I put less emphasis on those words because students might feel shy or might put their heads down.
Within and together with all these possibilities, almost any word can be made contrastively prominent in spoken language by being stressed (spoken more loudly) or by being uttered on a higher pitch, and very often these two are combined: I asked you for RED roses (not yellow); I meant it for YOU (not her); HE knows nothing about it (someone else may).
Most important, they are trained never to utter a size out loud, which is a far cry from the old-style underwear countermen who, many Saudi women complain, delight in loudly announcing the size of every item requested.
(Salgado, the sole dissenter, said, "No beer at all"). Weiner inadvertently drew titters by uttering the phrase "stiff wind". Thompson spoke slowly and loudly, using André Previn-esque hand gestures for emphasis, to little avail.
He writes even more vividly about how Aaron has often seemed an enigma, failing to speak up loudly during the civil-rights era, and uttering evasive comments about Barry Bonds, who would break his home-run record in 2007, a record tainted by allegations of steroid use.
My mind rushed to fill the stillness with its own jabbering, which rebounded around my brain as loudly as if the words had been uttered.
While advertisements talk loudly while communicating very little, Montgomery's pieces speak softly while uttering what we may need to hear most.
Then she had me breathe deeply and start uttering numbers quickly, then rotate my jaw and start singing vowels, first softly, then loudly.
